{"id":17570,"date":"2013-03-30T21:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17570"},"modified":"2013-03-30T21:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:42:29","slug":"obama-should-call-an-audible-with-late-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17570\/obama-should-call-an-audible-with-late-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Should Call an Audible with Late Budget Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With President Barack Obama\u2019s legally required budget proposal arriving <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/290801-obamas-budget-to-be-released-on-april-10\" target=\"_blank\">two months late<\/a> (April 10 when it was due February 4), here\u2019s a suggestion to ensure the document is something other than a White House-approved paper weight.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the President\u2019s unprecedented delay, both the Republican House and Democratic Senate have passed budgets, each with only party-line support.\u00a0 Now that both sides have put their opening bids on the table, it would be wise to make the White House version a kind of third way compromise that includes some elements that both sides like.<\/p>\n<p>One example would be to incorporate Paul Ryan\u2019s idea for putting Medicare plans on a state-based, federally-regulated health insurance exchange.\u00a0 Then, make the now obvious point that this plan, coupled with ObamaCare\u2019s exchange for non-seniors indicates bipartisan agreement on a major aspect of health insurance reform.\u00a0 Doing that would help change the focus of the debate on what Republican and Democrats have in common when it comes to moving forward on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With President Barack Obama\u2019s legally required budget proposal arriving two months late (April 10 when it was due February 4), here\u2019s a suggestion to ensure the document is something other than a White House-approved paper weight. Because of the President\u2019s unprecedented delay, both the Republican House and Democratic Senate have passed budgets, each with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,70,3007,3308,235,802,1447],"class_list":["post-17570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17574,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions\/17574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}